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Overview

To better understand the ways energypedia is used by the energypedia community as well as to know their level of satisfaction, we recently conducted our first energypedia user survey. The survey was launched on 30th June 2015 and closed on 13th July 2015. A survey link was included on our website, sent via emails to all our registered users as well as spread via our communication channels such as newsletter, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

The survey covered the following research questions:

What is the energypedia user demographics?

How and for what purposes do people use energypedia? What impact does energypedia have in their work?

What is their level of satisfaction with energypedia?

What motivates the users to get actively involved in the energypedia community?

A total of 185 people took part in the survey and gave us their valuable feedback. To better understand the usage of energypedia, we divided our respondents into two groups namely: registered users having an energypedia user account and non-registered users who do not have an energypedia user account. There were no significant differences between the answers of these two groups except in their visit frequency on energypedia which is highlighted in the section below.

Overall Satisfaction

86.9% (120 respondents) are either very satisfied or satisfied with energypedia's overall services. 11.6% (16 respondents) are slightly satisfied while 1.4% (2 respondents) are not at all satisfied.

58% (83 respondents ) have also recommended energypedia to other people.

Respondents Demographics

Regions and Professions

Out of the total 185 respondents, 145 already have an energypedia user account. Most respondents are located in Europe and Central Asia followed by Africa. They also work mainly in the private sector, followed by the government sector and the non profit sector.

Energypedia Usage

According to the survey, most of our respondents came to know about energypedia via the recommendation of their friends/colleagues and mostly use energypedia to update themselves about the latest developments in renewable energy. However, almost one quarter of all respondents also use energypedia to draw on lessons learnt for improving their own projects and one fifth use energypedia for writing papers, proposals, articles and so on

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Conclusion

This survey has provided us with some valuable insights about the energypedia community as well as their usage of energypedia.

According to the survey, most of our respondents are satisfied with energypedia and regularly use energypedia to keep themselves updated about renewable energy topics. However, we also learnt that most of our respondents are not familiar with many of our features like adding jobs, writing articles and so on. In addition, we also received some constructive feedback on further improving our platform. We will take into consideration all the suggestions mentioned in this survey and will incooperate them whenever possible in our future strategies.